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RE: Using Brackets around ALT text (Re: Is "this-or-that logo" adequate in an ALT text?)

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Aug 19, 2002 1:13PM

exactly my thinking, except that normal parenthisis () tend to be used for
items such as asides (I do this all the time) or extensions of thought or
word, such as: F.B.I (Federal Bureau of Investigation). This is why I asked
about square brackets instead... I cannot think of a "standard" usage of
them, yet by employing them in the alt text it achieves the goal of
differentiating the alt text from regular text.

JF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Luoma [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: August 19, 2002 9:51 AM
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> Subject: Using Brackets around ALT text (Re: Is "this-or-that logo"
> adequate in an ALT text?)
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> I generally enclose all ALT texts that aren't empty in ( ) not for
> screen readers but for text-browsers like Lynx.
>
> For example, if you hit www.tntluoma.com with Lynx, you would have seen
>
> Welcome
> Tim and Tracey with Ethan
>
> where the 2nd line is an ALT text. There's no indication at all that
> the 2nd line is ALT text!
>
> So I changed it to "Picture of Tim and Tracey with Ethan" which gave me
>
>
> Welcome
> Picture of Tim and Tracey with Ethan
>
> which was a little better, but still could be improved, and so I thought
>
>
> Welcome
> (Picture of Tim and Tracey with Ethan)
>
> made it clearer that it was a break from the regular flow of text
>
> TjL
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